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Bible Verses About Archimedes

Early Christian writings do not give any clear teaching about Archimedes himself. The only strong matches are brief references to Archimedes as a mathematician whose numbers or models were used in discussions of the heavens, especially in Hippolytus and Lactantius. Most of the other cards are about geometry, astronomy, wisdom, or unrelated names and do not teach anything direct about Archimedes.

This page is therefore only useful for showing that some early Christian authors knew of Archimedes as a scientific figure, not for showing a settled Christian belief about him.

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Acts 11:26 primary

And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

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The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Compass/line imagery is only a weak background match.

The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Wisdom and creation background, not Archimedes.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

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Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

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I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

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And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

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And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

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Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

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And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

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And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the LORD Jesus.

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And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

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In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

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Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

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For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

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But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

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And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

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And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

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When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

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Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

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And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

Possible background passage for invented machines, but not Archimedes and not early Christian.